July 8, 2004 | Posted by mark at 1:26 AM

When You Hear My Voice, the Circle Will Be Complete

Juno

Juno - High Noon

I'm not sure which is more difficult, creating a rock song entirely from samples, or covering a rock song based entirely on samples. Juno, a band I know little about, covers DJ Shadow's High Noon off of his Preemptive Strike LP. It's surprisingly good, sounding a lot like the original but still feeling like a band. It's from the split EP they recorded with the Dismemberment Plan back in 2001 [Buy It].

Stability

Death Cab For Cutie - All if Full of Love

Death Cab attempts a similar feat here, covering Bjork's beat-and-string-based track from Homogenic. The cover feels like an audition for the Postal Service, but with live drumming. Somehow the band manages to sound exactly like itself despite covering wildly different material. Maybe it's Gibbard's high, soft voice, or the tight drummer. Either way, it's a solid track off of the six-dollar Stability EP [Buy It].

Comments

Dudes. You've been pimped by Yahoo.

Posted by: Patje at July 8, 2004 5:23 AM

Patje, we've seen. it's a Reuters article so it gets syndicated everywhere. :) the MSNBC version of the article even included an actual link.

Posted by: anders at July 8, 2004 9:13 AM

found this site today way cool...

thanks for that DCFC song
think that Björks video of that song is one of the greatest ever done

cheers Man!

Posted by: Perry the Swede at July 8, 2004 1:20 PM

wow.. that's quite an impressive cover. they added a good DCFC touch yet kept the original vocal feel.

Posted by: alex at July 8, 2004 10:48 PM
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